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“War，war never change”
At the moment when the game reform film and television drama is very popular, the old IP of "Fallout" also continues to shine, and the reputation is not bad judging from the current rating, although it cannot reach the height of "The Last of Us", but it is already a masterpiece in the game reform industry as a bad work. Adaptations are not random fabrications, jokes are not nonsense, and the American drama "Fallout" once again proves how important it is to have a director who has played games.
This article involves a lot of spoilers for the American drama "Fallout", please read it as appropriate!!
As The Last of Us producer Neil said, "I believe The Last of Us will be the best and most realistic game adaptation." Some previous adaptations failed because the raw materials were not strong enough, or the producers didn't understand the game itself. ”
The director of the American drama "Fallout" is Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan's younger brother, as the "No. 1 pit king" in the American drama circle, Joe Nolan's prestige is known to everyone, "Suspect Tracking" and "Westworld" are all directed by him, and they are both the beginning of the king and then the ...... Jo Nolan picked up the bucket and ran away.
But this time "Fallout" is true love for Joe Nolan, maybe the situation will be different. In an interview with Eurogamer, he revealed that his addiction to the game even led to the postponement of The Dark Knight Rise. He said he "wanted to take a distraction" during production and started playing Fallout 3. "I remember Chris putting me in charge of writing The Dark Knight Rises, and if the film was a little delayed, Fallout 3 might be part of the reason," he said. ”
Joe Nolan also said that Fallout 3 "devoured a year of his life" and almost derailed his entire career. Who would refuse to explore a wasteland world full of opportunities in the Power Armored Zone, not even the great directors.
How important it is to have a director who understands the game, "I worked on one project and it was The Witcher. Among them, some screenwriters have a great dislike for these books and games, which is a source of plot disaster and demoralization. This quote comes from Beau DeMayo, a former producer of the Netflix series The Witcher. Geralt's actor Henry Cavill has identified himself as a fan of The Witcher, saying that he went to see the original book after playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and that the experience of filming the live-action series "The Witcher" was "like playing the game again" for him. Dachao's later withdrawal, I believe there is also anger at seeing his favorite original work being changed beyond recognition.
In addition to "The Witcher", Steven Kane, the producer of the "Halo" TV series, also said in an interview that he and the writing team did not "view or talk" about the original game in any way, and they only cared about the character image and worldview of the "Halo" TV series. I haven't played the game, I haven't read the original book, so I relied on my own freewheeling creation, and successfully adapted the heavy human war in "Halo" into love, love, and the master chief easily took off his mask, and the score was also a slap in the face of these people.
What satisfies me most about the American drama "Fallout" is the restoration of the world of "Fallout", which makes players feel like they have returned to the time of the refuge when they watch the series.
The first is casting, casting is a major flaw in the film and television drama. In today's politically correct moment, the female characters in the game themselves who are good-looking or not ugly must choose the right actor to play, and even the race can be changed. Netflix's previous filming of the "Resident Evil" American drama directly became a "black crisis", and those who don't know think that only black people can get the virus. Not only is it correct, but choosing the wrong person can also have the opposite effect, and Tom Holland in "Uncharted" and Drake in the game have a temperament difference of 108,000 miles, and they are completely impossible to bring in.
"Fallout" is very well done, and the heroine seems to me to be quite cute after watching it for a long time, at least not a nun girl. The ghoul and the little black brother are really the essence of the acting, the little black brother gives me a feeling of "conqueror Kang", and the facial expressions of a few close-up shots are really amazing. Ghouls not to mention, a word handsome!
The most difficult part of the game reform film and television drama is that players can operate their own characters in the game to explore at will, emphasizing the player's interaction and sense of substitution, a gamer can play for hundreds of hours, and only a short 1 hour and 12 episodes of space are left for the series, and restoring the game scenes and props as much as possible is the easiest way to increase the sense of substitution.
Isn't the nuclear explosion cool? Cool, too cool!
Like "Westworld", the first season of "Fallout" is equivalent to all forces coming out to show their faces, the Brotherhood of Steel, Vault Tec, Federation, Enclave, and NCR are all more or less mentioned, and the American drama is also restoring the scenes in the game as much as possible, and the Brotherhood of Steel's airships and power armor are simply too sexy!
And the power armor worn by the actors in the play is all real rather than CGI special effects, and the team responsible for the production of the power armor of the live-action drama "Fallout" is Legacy, who was responsible for the production of the Iron Man suit in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the charm of hand rubbing!
Nuka Cola, therapeutic needles in the toilet, poor little pistols, radiation-infected monsters, the ubiquitous beep-beep boys, gangs fighting each other on the surface, and garbage settlements, I am very satisfied with the presentation of the wasteland world in the show.
(Fallout player smiles at the terminal decryption)
(Every dog meat has its own red rocket)
What do players want to see most when they watch game games and film and television dramas? It's that their favorite characters are moving, and when they see film and television scenes, they can shout "I'm going, I've been here", just like if you ask me if the "Assassin's Creed" movie is bad, I will definitely answer bad. But if you ask me if I like it, I will not hesitate to say that I like it, after all, I can see the leap of faith, what kind of bicycle do I want.
Not only is it a service to the road, but the shelter technology that has a weak sense of presence in the game has also been supplemented in the American drama. Vaults 33, 32, 31, and 4 appear in the show, which are not mentioned in the game. Families here all feel like characters from 1950s sitcoms, where everyone knows their neighbors well, and the biggest disputes between people can be resolved with a short story and a handshake.
In the game's setting, each shelter is a small experiment manipulated by man, and the social experiments of each shelter are different, such as Fallout Vault 69, which has only 1 male for 1,000 residents, and Fallout Vault 68, which is the complete opposite, and the story of these shelters is enough for an American drama. Vault 4 is really fun and I recommend everyone to check it out, which is very much in line with the black humor of Fallout.
In my impression, players in the game don't seem to have met a real Vault Tech employee, as for Rocco, Prius, Vault Tek, these pre-war big companies are rarely mentioned, the American drama directly picks things out, instead of using the game's favorite "corpse narrative" method of the B Society, the round table in the play makes me very satisfied, and also explains the question of who dropped the nuclear bomb, although some do not conform to the original setting of the Black Island, but it is obviously more reasonable and more explosive to drop the nuclear bomb by Vault Technology.
The narrative in the play is also a multi-line narrative that Qiao Nolan is good at, Xiao Hei, the heroine, and the ghoul (where did you pick up the blasting pistol), intersect with each other, although there are not many characters who appear, but each character has a distinct personality, and they all live in their own way in the wasteland world. What is it that connects all the forces in this wasteland through a cold nuclear fusion and uncovers a larger conspiracy in the final reversal? This is Westworld!
However, "Fallout" still has a relatively serious phenomenon of eating books, and Brother Todd also said that American dramas will be official history, which means that everything will be based on the history that appears in American dramas, especially the nuclear explosion of NCR's capital Luyin Town, which makes a considerable number of old players dissatisfied.
In the trailer, the ruins of Shady City appeared, and at that time, some people wondered if it was a continuation of the ending of the Lonely Road DLC bombing NCR. As a result, it is revealed in the official episode that the NCR capital was destroyed in New Vegas 4 years ago. Probably thinking that the capital of the NCR was suddenly razed to the ground by the Vault, and that the NCR without the largest city could still support the exile army of Mojave to fight the dam.
In other words, the West Coast Fallout was directly destroyed by Todd's brother, and the plot of the first three "Fallout" became a parallel world. This seems to be Todd's declaration of sovereignty over the IP of "Fallout", don't rectify interplay, Black Island, and the radiation of obsidian, the radiation of B Society is orthodox!
However, the plot is a war between the elders, and there is no difficulty in understanding it for viewers who have not been exposed to "Fallout" or have only played "Fallout 4" and "Fallout 76", it looks very enjoyable, and the American drama "Fallout" has the cool points that most Fallout lovers want to see.
IGN 9 points, IMDb 8.7 points, M station 73 points, Rotten Tomatoes freshness index 94%, popcorn index 86%, there is no need to worry about the quality of the series. Maybe after you watch the perfect drama, you are interested in learning about the fanatical pursuit of nuclear weapons in the United States in the 50s of the last century, and the enthusiasm for digging shelters, which is a crazy history and an interesting history.
Also, Why does a cowboy call Cooper Howard, is Brother Todd so narcissistic?